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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

WAITING ON WEDNESDAY #64: Six Feet Over It by Jennifer Longo

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spinethat spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Home is where the bodies are buried.Darkly humorous and heart-wrenchingly beautiful, Jennifer Longo’s YA debut about a girl stuck living in a cemetery will change the way you look at life, death, and love.Leigh sells graves for her family-owned cemetery because her father is too lazy to look farther than the dinner table when searching for employees. Working the literal graveyard shift, she meets two kinds of customers:Pre-Need: They know what’s up. They bought their graves a long time ago, before they needed them.At Need: They are in shock, mourning a loved one’s unexpected death. Leigh avoids sponging their agony by focusing on things like guessing the headstone choice (mostly granite).Sarcastic and smart, Leigh should be able to stand up to her family and quit. But her world’s been turned upside down by the sudden loss of her best friend and the appearance of Dario, the slightly-too-old-for-her grave digger. Surrounded by death, can Leigh move on, if moving on means it’s time to get a life?

Expected publication: August 26th 2014

That first line there has me feeling all creepy. Realistic fiction about a girl, death, a cemetery and a grave digger. I like the sound of this one!!

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